Prince William Arrives for His First Day of School in Navy Suit

The first day of school is always extremely anxiety-inducing. What to wear? How to act? Where to sit in the cafeteria? Now imagine all of that but with a swarm of photographers greeting you on campus, and presumably every other student gawking at you in the halls—that, we expect, is what a royal’s first day of school is like.

Prince William hopped on the train at King’s Cross station in London this morning to make his way to the first day of his 10-week program in agricultural management at the University of Cambridge. William is expected to make the 46-minute commute most days, though he will also have a “private residence” in town to accommodate for classes that begin late in the day or early in the morning, per Sky News. (“Kate, I think I’m just gonna crash here in town tonight. Haveso much reading to do, and then this girl Tessa is having a party in her dorm, just a small thing, and I feel like I should make an appearance, you know? We were in the same study group and everything, so. . . “ “Oh. . . uh, O.K., hon. I’ll, uh, see you tomorrow night then, or do you think this Tessa will be having anothersmall thing?”)

William was snapped on campus wearing a navy-blue suit, looking less like a university student and more like he was greeting an ambassador for tea in Buckingham Palace. If our experience is anything to go on, he’ll be sporting coffee-stained sweatpants and a hole-ridden T-shirt by week four.

There has been some controversy over William’s academic record, as the Cambridge student paper (somewhat ridiculously) suggested William might not deserve his spot in the program (“The Tabmust point out that normally students need A*AA at A-level to gain entry to Cambridge University, whilst the Prince only achieved a mediocre ABC.”) We’re frankly more curious as to whether his fellow classmates will play it cool in his presence, pretending not to know who William is (“Are you, uh, a first year?”), or if everyone will just genuflect in his presence, saving him the best seat, handing over their notes to him as if required to do so, and showing him the Kate Middleton backgrounds they have on their iPhones.

Josh DuboffJosh Duboff is a VF.com staff writer, based in New York, who covers entertainment and culture.